Category Archives: Floor Underlayment

With the rise of vinyl plank flooring, MP Global Product introduces the first felt underlayment designed for vinyl plank flooring. With density in mind, we tweaked the fiber formula from our other popular QuietWalk for laminate flooring. Same benefits as the famous QuietWalk, just thinner/denser which eliminates movement when walking on vinyl plank flooring. We’ve…

Installing any type of flooring in the basement can be tricky. With common humidity levels that are associated with basements, you want to make sure your flooring gets plenty of ventilation. We developed VentiLayer/Bellawood Basement to help just that. Our patented mesh layer promotes ventilation to disperse potentially harmful moisture away from your beautiful flooring.…

Understanding what goes under your laminate flooring can help improve the life of your flooring. Of course, this really never gets talked about because the flooring is what you look at, feel and admire. What isn’t talked about is underlayment. Underlayment helps moisture protection, sound absorption and compression support. Do you really need underlayment for…

Have you recently bought some bamboo flooring and looking for the best underlayment? Did you know what lies underneath your bamboo plays an even more important role or equal to? Underlayment for bamboo can help you solve three hidden problems. 1. Moisture Protection From talking to customers who had questions, bamboo flooring seems to be…

When installing new flooring, you want to make sure it last for years to come. With all flooring, moisture from the subfloor underneath (concrete) can cause issues and can cause headaches months from now. Why and how is there moisture in concrete slabs? There is always water underneath the ground, while it might not be…

Looking for underlayment to reduce sound? The only time we suggest underlayment under vinyl tile or plank flooring is if want to reduce the impact sound or sound transmission in your room. The additional underlayment under the floor will help to reduce the sound. MP Global has designed an underlayment with superior sound absorption. The…

Flooring Underlayment for Flooring Contractors – Buy Bulk, Save Money and Increase Profit Margin Most flooring contractors look for ways to increase their profits for flooring installations. One method of increasing profit is to buy underlayment in bulk. The following points describe the benefits of buying contractor rolls. Less Trips To Store – This will…

With the new addition of QuietWalk Plus, our customers are wondering what the difference between QuietWalk and QuietWalk Plus. The main benefits for QuietWalk Plus is: Enhanced film – The film allows the glue to adhere to the floor and subfloor. It is malleable to allow nail down flooring. More Dense Pad – The pad…

Buying your ideal flooring can be an exciting experience. With pricing of $2 – $8 per sq ft, you want to make sure you install your flooring the correct way. Maybe you heard of horror stories of people installing laminate flooring and hear cracking sounds when walked on. What lies underneath the flooring can determine…

The floor covering industry considers the sound insulation very important in living areas such as multi-family or single-family dwellings. When evaluating flooring underlayment, sound deadening and acoustical ratings are one of the things homeowners or HOA considers. It all begins with how sound is generated and the medium it transfers through. The main test done…

Crack isolation and sound control products are designed to solve well-known issues in flooring installation. Crack isolation products keep subfloor cracks from transferring into tile and stone floors. Sound control products are designed to minimize impact noise from footfalls and other types of traffic, as measured by their Impact Insulation Class (IIC) rating. We asked…